Harvest truly is plenteous,
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but the laborers are few.
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Pray Ye therefore,
the Lord of the harvest,
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that He will, He
will send forth laborers
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into His harvest.
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Also, I heard the
voice of the Lord saying,
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"Whom shall I send?
And who will go for us?"
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Then said, I. "Here
am I, send me, send me."
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Life on the Edge will enable you
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to be an effective
harvester for the Lord.
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We now invite you
into our classroom
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to come, experience, Life.
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Hello, welcome back again
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to the Lay
Institute for Evangelism
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here in sunny Florida.
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I'd like to
welcome you people at home
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as well and just
thank you for joining us
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today in tuning in.
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In case you just
now-- is being the very
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first time you've
ever tuned in and seeing
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what's going on here at Life,
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the Lay
Institute for Evangelism.
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What we're doing here is having
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an interactive Bible study.
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And we're not only
interactive Bible study,
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we're actually
teaching one another how to give
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Bible studies to somebody else.
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And if you're
joining us for the first time
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or if you just
picked up on a few of them
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and you would like to
more information about this,
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you can visit our website
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at www.ComeExperienceLife.com
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and there are on a website
you have links you can go
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to where you can
download the study guides
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what we're using here
at Life and also you can
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download the videos and watch,
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actually watch the
classes that we're taking here
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to teach this here at Life
all those things can be done.
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We want to encourage you though,
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it's nothing like being
here actually physically here
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where you can be
interactive with us
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and see the other
things that are going on
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and get the full experience.
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And so we want to encourage you
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to come and experience life.
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You can get more
information again
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on the website there.
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You can look at-- download
an application, fill it out,
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send it off and
we'll be glad to see you
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in the spring of 2010
or anytime after that.
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You can see the other sessions
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that will be taking place.
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But right now today,
we're going to be looking
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at one of my most
favorite presentations,
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I think I've said
that at every presentation
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I've given, I
like everyone of them.
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But I do
specifically like this one,
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it does me, have a
little meaning to me more than
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some of the
others and you understand
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why as I move along.
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And it's the
presentation what we're gonna be
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showing is that in
the Bible that God cares
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about our health.
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He does definitely
care about our health
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both physically and spiritually.
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And if you notice
at the screen here
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that's exactly what we say
the purpose of the study is.
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This purpose of the
study is to show that God cares
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about our spiritual
and our physical health.
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Now that might be a new
revelation to some people
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and think really does
God care me and I thought
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it just long as-- as long
as I'm healthy spiritually
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and long as I love the
Lord everything is going
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to be fine and in
a sense that's true,
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but did you know
that good spiritual health
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or also and because
good spiritual health means
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just spending time with God
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and you're in His
word and things like that.
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You will find that the
Bible teaches that God wants us
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to be healthy physically too.
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So if you have
good spiritual health,
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which you mean you're
spending time with God,
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you also understand
when you spend time with God
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reading His word that
He expects us to take care
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of the bodies
that He has given us.
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And that's where
we're gonna be going through
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with the study today.
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Now I must admit
the study isn't for--
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it would not be for the people
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that really aren't Christians
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and have given
their heart to the Lord.
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Because if you don't
have that relationship
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with Jesus, if
you're not close to Him
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and trusting in
Him and loving Him,
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then when the Bible
says, you know what,
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you need to change
this in your life or change
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that in your life is
not gonna do you any good
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unless you have
Him in your life.
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And so this-- through
the study we're gonna be
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looking at things
that the Bible teaches
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that we should not have things
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we should abstain from,
things that we should have
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throughout the
Bible that God gives us.
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So that's going to be
part of the study today.
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Also as we move along here
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to the Center It part of it.
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The Center It is
simply exists almost
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like the purpose.
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Jesus wants us to be healthy.
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Jesus wants all
of us to be healthy.
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The Center of it
is Jesus cares for you
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and He wants each
of us to be healthy.
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Now before we go
on to the next slide
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we're gonna have-- the
next slide is going to be
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a list of all of the text
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we're gonna have for this study
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and there is actually 18 of them
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and we'll get
through them in two hours.
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This will definitely
be a two hour session,
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so for those you at
home you'll get to sit
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and watch the
first half of this,
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you watch the first
hour and if it's interesting
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enough and you wanna go
ahead and finish getting
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that Bible study,
you've to go ahead and go back
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in later on and get part
two off the website there
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and watch it as well.
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But there is only
one study guide to it.
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So you don't have to
go about and say where is
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part two, the study
guide part two on the internet.
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It's all come from
the same study guide.
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We'll just stop
about half way through
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and then pick up
the rest of the way
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in a two hour session.
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And for those who
are here and for those
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you at home as well, I
would like to invite you
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to bow your head with me
as we seek God's guidance
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as we study His word today.
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Lord Jesus, thank you
so much for the health
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that you've given
to us, for this life
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that you've provided for us.
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And I pray Lord, as
we open Your word now
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and we study this
very important message
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on health that
You'll give us understanding
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and You'll give us
wisdom that when we're done
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here Lord, we'll know
how to serve you better.
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And I pray this in
the name of Jesus, amen.
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As we turn to the
screen here you'll see
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that our text that
we're gonna be using here
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for the health presentation.
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Now you'll notice
here that the abbreviation
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for the health
study when you're marking
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your Bible just simply H.
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So when you get to that
first text in your Bible
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and you're marking
it up you'll put it 1H.
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And we'll go to
that and let you see it
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as we get them to
the marking part of it.
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But that's what you use H.
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Now, I had one of
the students here said
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when you done those
as a study on health,
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the destruction of
the wicked what it was,
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right, and we told you to use DW
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and I said during
that presentation well,
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you can actually use an H
if you want to if you insist
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and I wasn't thinking
ahead for another thing.
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Well, health
presentation is also an H.
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So what I wanna encourage
you to do if you actually did
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do that when we
done the destruction
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of the wicked and you
marked it in the Bible.
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If you marked it H
instead of DW on this one
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you have to use HT
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or something
like that for health.
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Just use HT so it
keeps it separate like that.
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Shalida was the one, you know,
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done that and she was hoping
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I wouldn't embarrass
her today, but that's okay.
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She obeyed me both ways.
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All right, and so
we're gonna end up
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in the-- with the
last text today being
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1 Thessalonians 5:23.
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We'll get down
somewhere probably around
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in the first half of
this, we'll probably get
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somewhere around
Leviticus Chapter 11 number 9
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That's about we'll finish off
at in the first half of this.
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So let us carry on now
and go to our first text.
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Our first text on the
screen is Revelation Chapter 14,
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Revelation the 14 Chapter
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and here is what we're
going to be studying here
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and the reason why I
opened up with Revelation 14.
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Does anybody know
what Revelation 14
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one that first part
of Revelation Chapter 14
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basically just that
Chapter what is known for,
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what it's kind of famous for?
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We call it the Three
Angels' Message, right.
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And what you gonna find
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in these Three Angels' Messages,
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we discover the judgment
in the Three Angels' Message.
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We discover the
mark of the beast
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in the Three Angels' Message.
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We find that the
Gospel is going to go
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into all over the world
in Three Angels' Message.
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Many things
packed in those verses
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right about these
messages is gonna be going
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to all over the world.
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Well today, what
we're gonna find out
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is also the very
fact that God want's us
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to be healthy is also in
that Three Angles Message
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and we're gonna
unpack that right now.
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So at this time Robert,
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Robert is gonna read to us.
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Sorry Robert, I had
to think about your name
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there for a second, read to us
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Revelation
Chapter 14 verses 6 and 7,
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Revelation 14:6 and 7.
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"Then I saw another angel flying
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in the midst of
heaven, having the everlasting
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gospel to preach to
those who dwell on the earth
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to every nation, tribe, tongue,
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and people saying
with a loud voice,
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'Fear God and give glory to Him,
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for the hour of
His judgment has come,
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and worship Him who
made heaven and earth,
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the sea and springs of waters.'"
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Thank you very much.
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Now you remember early
on in one of the studies
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we read from here and
it was a matter of fact
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it was the
study on judgment two.
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The second part of the judgment,
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the judgment study,
is judgment part two.
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And we saw here that first angel
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is going to be preaching
the everlasting gospel, right.
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That's what it says
here, the everlasting gospel.
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And we ask what is
the everlasting gospel?
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And then the
answer comes in verse 7,
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because it says this
everlasting gospel saying
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and then it goes on to--
as to what he was saying.
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Saying with a loud voice,
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fear God and give glory to Him.
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And then we
focused in on the hour
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of His judgment has
come, worship Him that made
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heavens and the earth, the sea,
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and fountains of
water and all those things.
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Well, what we
haven't focused in on yet
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is what it says fear
God and give glory to Him.
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Now the question is
going to come up right now.
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How do we give glory to God?
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That's a good question isn't it?
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I mean that's part of
the everlasting gospel,
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giving glory to God is
part of the everlasting gospel.
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Well how is it we
give glory to God?
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Well, let us go on
now to our next text,
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we're gonna
answer this question,
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we're gonna begin
answering this question,
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and while we're
turning in our Bibles
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to the second text.
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Let me ask you some of the ways.
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Please tell me, some of the ways
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we can give glory to God?
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Can anybody give me just some,
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just some ideas how
can you give glory to God
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in your life right
now as a Christian?
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Do good to
others. Do good to others.
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How we dress. How we dress.
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Witnessing. Witnessing.
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How about singing hymns,
is that giving glory to God?
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Reading our Bibles,
does that give glory to God?
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Right, there are
many things we can think
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of that give glory to God.
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But now we're gonna
look at is there is also
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the way we give glory
to God can be in the way
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we eat, in the way we drink,
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and many other things.
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There's many ways we
can give glory to God
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and how we are gonna
find out is go to the Bible
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1 Corinthians
Chapter 10 and verse 31.
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And Tim is gonna
read that for us,
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1 Corinthians
Chapter 10 and verse 31.
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Go ahead Tim.
Don't go ahead yet.
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So everybody else is
there from Revelation
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we're gonna turn to the left
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1 Corinthians
Chapter 10 and verse 31.
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There you go, now you
read it for us I'm there.
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"Whether
therefore you eat, or drink,
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or whatsoever you do, do
all to the glory of God."
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Okay, Paul is writing
here to the Corinthians
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and he says for
whatsoever you do,
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whether you eat
or whether you drink,
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do all to the glory of God.
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So is there a way
that we can eat and drink
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that gives glory to God?
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Of course it is because
he says whatever you do,
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do it to the glory of God,
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whether you eat or drink.
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So if there is a
way to eat and drink
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to the glory of God, would
that also logical conclusion
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here would be, there is
a way you can eat and drink
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that would not
bring glory to God.
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Do you see that from the text?
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Now do you see
like when you're given
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a Bible study how
this first part leads you
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so perfectly together.
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I mean, you've
the Revelation 14 text
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it says fear God
and give glory to Him.
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And then you go
here to this text
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in 1 Corinthians 10:31
it says whatever you do
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give glory to God.
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So it has to be
given glory to God.
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And I've heard
people say, you know,
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like since whatever we
do we give glory to God.
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We'll be doing
something that the devil
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would have them doing
and they say well yeah
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but I'm praising the
Lord while I'm doing it.
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You know, you follow
what I'm saying, right.
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You know, we do something
completely outrageously wrong
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and say well, I'm
giving glory to God,
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I'm thanking Him.
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No, the context
of the verse here,
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the context of what he
is saying is your actions
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will give glory to God
or not give glory to God.
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Giving glory to
God is not something
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you just say out of your mouth.
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Are you following that?
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And so some people
actually have that idea,
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as long as I'm,
saying praise the Lord
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then I must be
giving glory to God, right,
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but that's not
necessarily the case.
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If I'm going around like
today as the matter of fact
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tomorrow is my
15th wedding anniversary
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with my wife, right.
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And so tomorrow on our
15th wedding anniversary
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I'll go out with another girl
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and I'm gonna say glory to God.
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And then you think that's
really giving glory to God.
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But I'll go to
church with the other girl.
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No because your
actions actually show
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whether or not you're
giving glory to God, okay.
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So tomorrow on my
15th wedding anniversary,
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I know people at
home saying oh well
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he doesn't look that
old he must have got married
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when he was like 15.
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No I'm just
kidding, I'm we had this
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discussion yesterday I found out
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from some of our students
here that I couldn't pass
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the 29 anymore, I'm heart broke.
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Let's carry on here.
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So we found out,
we found out here now
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in the Bible that
whatever we would do
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whether we're eating
or drinking we should do
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all to the glory of God.
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Now, from this
point we are gonna
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go on to 1
Corinthians Chapter 6:19 and 20,
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because some folks think
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1 Corinthians
Chapter 6:19 and 20,
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let me get there
myself 1 Corinthians Chapter 7
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I said that's not the verse.
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1 Corinthians 6:19 and 20
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and Mike is gonna
read that one for us.
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"What? Know you
not that your body
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is the temple of the
Holy Ghost which is in you,
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which you have of God,
and you are not your own?"
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Mike can I ask you a question?
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Have you ever had
anybody said it's my body
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I'll do what I want? Yes.
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You know, Paul's
argument here right in
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1st Corinthians is
we're just reading.
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Is if you say that, if
you say that my body is mine
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I'll do what I want you're
saying you're not a Christian.
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Because he says
if you're Christian
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who owns your body.
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Yeah, read it again
now with that in mind.
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Let's start right
there again I'm sorry.
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Pick it up again. What?
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"What? Know you
not that your body
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is the temple of the
Holy Ghost which is in you,
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which you have of God,
and you are not your own?"
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Verse 20. Yeah
go ahead verse 20.
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"For ye are bought with a price,
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therefore
glorify God in your body,
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and in your
spirit, which are God's."
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Once again we
hear that again Mike,
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glorify God in your
body and your spirit
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which belongs to God.
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And so time and again
as you read in the Bible
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as you find in the
Bible God is defining
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Christians
through Apostle Paul here,
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he is defining Christians.
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If you gonna follow
God you gonna understand
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that the body
does not belong to you,
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but it belongs to God Himself.
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He owns you.
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First of all He created you.
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Secondly, He redeemed you.
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So therefore He owns you.
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And so can you
imagine the situation here.
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Let's suppose,
let's suppose right now
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that Shalida here.
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Let's suppose
that Shalida goes out
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and buys herself a
new car, brand new car,
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like to have a
new one, won't you?
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So she has this
brand new car and she takes
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the instruction
manual to her brand new car
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and she just puts in a
glove box and closes it
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and she goes and drives her car
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about 15,000
miles about 20,000 miles
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and all of the sudden
smoke starts rolling out of it.
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And so she takes
it in-- takes it back
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to the dealership and when
she get's back to dealership
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it's all
scratched up on the sides,
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smoke throwing out
of it and she never done
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one thing to take
of it what she had it.
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Is anybody here
going to be upset with it?
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How careless of you,
wouldn't bother me a bit.
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It's your money you
wasted it, you know,
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it's your business, right.
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Of course it's
God's money she wasted
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and we would may be
little upset with her,
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that's my point of
view, but still the point
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is it was her car
she done she want to.
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But let's suppose
Shalida borrowed my car
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and she takes it
away and she goes down
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and I said yes
Shalida you can borrow my car.
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She has taken it down
to Miami to visit family
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or whatever and
about a week later
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she shows back over my house.
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The car is beat up,
smoke rolling out of it,
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you know, the windows are
cracked and things like that.
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Would I be angry with her
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or little upset with her then?
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Of course I would
have to forgive her because
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then I couldn't go to
heaven if I wouldn't, right.
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But I would definitely,
I would definitely get
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little upset with
Shalida wouldn't I, why.
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Because it's my car,
your body that you claim
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to be yours is not your
body according to Bible,
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but it belongs to God.
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And if God give us our
body and after only about
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20,000 miles of usage, right,
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I say 20 years into
our life it looks like
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our body has been used
by somebody for 75 years,
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then do you think God
would have any issue with us,
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if it was something we
did ourselves, you know,
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things can happen, right.
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So God expect us to take
care of what He has given us.
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God expect us to take
care of what He has given us.
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And, you know, God
gives us strong warning
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against those people that insist
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that it's mybody,
I can do what I want.
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He gives very
strong counsel against that
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and you find it in 1 Corinthians
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the next chapter we're
going to next we're going to
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1 Corinthians and I
got to skip one because
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we're going to 1
Corinthians Chapter 3
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and verse 16 and 17,
1 Corinthians Chapter 3
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verses 16 and 17.
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Now this is one of
the strongest points,
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one of the strongest
statements in the Bible
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that you can find
regarding how you take care
00:16:19.62\00:16:21.55
of your body and
Ms. Gloria is gonna
00:16:21.56\00:16:23.43
take-- take the privilege
of reading that one for us
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and I thank you for doing that.
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1st Corinthians
Chapter 3 verse 16 and 17
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the strongest warning
you find in all the Bible
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about abusing your body.
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Let's go ahead and
hear that from Ms. Gloria.
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"Do you not know that
you are a temple of God
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and that the Spirit
of God dwells in you?
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If anyone defiles
the temple of God,
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God will destroy him, for
the temple of God is holy.
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Which temple are you."
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What is that the
Bible says that God is going
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to do the man or
the woman that decides
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they're just going
to mess up their body
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and it doesn't matter
what happens to their body.
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God will destroy them,
that's pretty serious isn't it.
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I mean, that's not my words,
00:17:08.97\00:17:10.46
that's the Bible's words.
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You know, I have friends,
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many friends that
are not Christian,
00:17:13.81\00:17:16.21
and relatives especially.
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And I can remember,
I remember often times
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I've heard many people say,
00:17:20.81\00:17:21.80
well, you know what it's
my body I'll do what I want.
00:17:21.81\00:17:24.88
And they do that
just that very thing
00:17:24.89\00:17:26.26
that they eat all kinds
of things that just are not
00:17:26.27\00:17:28.80
good for them, they drink things
00:17:28.81\00:17:30.55
they should not be drinking,
00:17:30.56\00:17:31.71
they smoke anything, right.
00:17:31.72\00:17:33.40
They do these things
and they say it's my body.
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But yet, here's
what they will do,
00:17:36.37\00:17:38.32
they will say to their family
00:17:38.33\00:17:39.47
and their loved
one's, I love you.
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Of course they
do. No, they don't.
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I want you to
think about this Tim,
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I'm gonna pick
on you for a minute.
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Tim, let's suppose
you're married man, okay.
00:17:46.88\00:17:49.90
And you got your
wife there and you say,
00:17:49.91\00:17:51.52
honey I love you
and you're a smoker
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and a drinker and you're
just a rabble-rouser, right.
00:17:53.76\00:17:57.46
Eating all kinds of
things that are bad for you
00:17:57.47\00:17:59.18
and things like
that you're bloating up,
00:17:59.19\00:18:00.36
you're getting big,
you're getting unhealthy
00:18:00.37\00:18:02.41
and you're getting
lazy, and you're lying
00:18:02.42\00:18:03.55
in the house and
it's just getting worse
00:18:03.56\00:18:04.61
all the time, okay.
00:18:04.62\00:18:05.72
But you say, where your
wife says oh Tim I love you.
00:18:05.73\00:18:07.85
She is like catering to him,
00:18:07.86\00:18:08.83
she just loves him
so much and adores him.
00:18:08.84\00:18:11.03
Tim, you got to
pretend with me, okay.
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You have your
wife, you love her.
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Whenever you have your stroke
00:18:17.28\00:18:19.92
and you are laying
there with drool running out
00:18:19.93\00:18:21.68
your mouth and your -- then
your lovely wife has to come
00:18:21.69\00:18:25.74
and spoon feed you whose
life has just been ruined.
00:18:25.75\00:18:28.56
My wife's life has been ruined.
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Exactly right, exactly.
00:18:31.90\00:18:34.25
My dad died at very young age,
00:18:34.26\00:18:36.63
52 I believe how
old he was when he died.
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He died in 1999
and it devastated me.
00:18:38.91\00:18:42.38
I love spending
time with my dad,
00:18:42.39\00:18:44.35
but you know my dad
thought it didn't matter
00:18:44.36\00:18:46.24
what you ate and what you drank
00:18:46.25\00:18:47.62
and all these kinds of things.
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And he smoked
all the way up until
00:18:48.76\00:18:49.99
like eight years
before he died when the doctor
00:18:50.00\00:18:52.76
finally told him, said
if you continue smoking
00:18:52.77\00:18:54.70
you won't see
your grandkids, right.
00:18:54.71\00:18:56.39
So he quit smoking and
he got to see his grandkids.
00:18:56.40\00:18:59.07
But then in 1999 he dropped dead
00:18:59.08\00:19:01.48
with massive heart
attack but, you know,
00:19:01.49\00:19:02.60
in his mind, his view it
didn't matter what you ate.
00:19:02.61\00:19:05.85
Whenever my dad dropped dead
00:19:05.86\00:19:06.84
of massive heart attack,
whose life was messed up?
00:19:06.85\00:19:09.06
Yours. Yes, my
life is messed up.
00:19:09.07\00:19:11.47
So as you're growing older,
00:19:11.48\00:19:13.29
as you're young and
you're developing habits
00:19:13.30\00:19:15.04
that are really bad
that is harming your body
00:19:15.05\00:19:17.60
and you say well it
doesn't matter because
00:19:17.61\00:19:18.85
it's my body you
maybe-- maybe the case
00:19:18.86\00:19:21.66
you may not be serving God
00:19:21.67\00:19:22.70
and giving your
body to Him, right.
00:19:22.71\00:19:24.75
You may be serving yourself,
00:19:24.76\00:19:26.49
but do not lie to
your family and tell them
00:19:26.50\00:19:28.67
you love them.
00:19:28.68\00:19:29.83
You understand that, right?
00:19:32.07\00:19:33.15
I mean, I tell my
family I love them,
00:19:33.16\00:19:34.72
I love my kids, I love my wife,
00:19:34.73\00:19:36.63
but if I go out
and destroy this body.
00:19:36.64\00:19:39.17
When if I drop
dead of a heart attack,
00:19:39.18\00:19:41.43
or whenever I
have a massive stroke
00:19:41.44\00:19:42.85
and I'm laying
there in a nursing home
00:19:42.86\00:19:43.98
or any of these things happen.
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Can these things happen
to people that live healthy?
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Yes, over a period
of time it does happen,
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but it's a lot less frequent.
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It's a way rarer
for that to happen
00:19:51.64\00:19:54.97
to someone that's eating right,
00:19:54.98\00:19:56.57
exercising and doing
right, than it is for someone
00:19:56.58\00:19:58.81
that's just
saying it doesn't matter,
00:19:58.82\00:19:59.84
I'll do what I want.
00:19:59.85\00:20:01.46
You know, they-- is
all way back in the 60s,
00:20:01.47\00:20:04.94
you know, where they call these,
00:20:04.95\00:20:06.05
first I understand
calling cigarettes coffin nails.
00:20:06.06\00:20:10.11
You know, having another
nail for your coffin, right.
00:20:10.12\00:20:12.34
That's like
terminology used way back then.
00:20:12.35\00:20:14.38
Now we're gonna
get into the details
00:20:14.39\00:20:15.71
of this later on, but
what I want you to understand
00:20:15.72\00:20:17.30
is before we get into
the health part of this,
00:20:17.31\00:20:20.14
as far as the details of it,
00:20:20.15\00:20:21.87
the reason I've
such a burden for this
00:20:21.88\00:20:23.81
is because I've seen
it happen too many times.
00:20:23.82\00:20:26.10
And it's usually
more along with the men,
00:20:26.11\00:20:28.88
the men side of it.
00:20:28.89\00:20:30.26
You know, when I was growing up
00:20:30.27\00:20:31.26
it was the women that
were all the religious people
00:20:31.27\00:20:33.39
and stuff, they
were in the families.
00:20:33.40\00:20:35.17
Like the men they
never went go to church
00:20:35.18\00:20:36.35
and things like that.
00:20:36.36\00:20:37.36
Almost like they think
it's all of the religion
00:20:37.37\00:20:39.60
that's for women and children.
00:20:39.61\00:20:41.26
It's like, you know, salvation
00:20:41.27\00:20:42.57
that's only for
women and children.
00:20:42.58\00:20:44.44
No, I could
definitely use that myself too.
00:20:44.45\00:20:46.40
And but it seem
like it was almost looked
00:20:46.41\00:20:48.21
as a girly thing to
do, that's what the women,
00:20:48.22\00:20:50.10
children did right.
00:20:50.11\00:20:51.52
And it's the same way with
health and things like that.
00:20:51.53\00:20:54.43
I'm glad things are
changing somewhat in the world.
00:20:54.44\00:20:56.55
I mean, people are
being more and more
00:20:56.56\00:20:57.81
health conscious
right now especially
00:20:57.82\00:20:59.14
with the healthcare
debates and everything going on.
00:20:59.15\00:21:01.42
But all that set
aside, the reason
00:21:01.43\00:21:03.74
I want to be healthy
primarily is to serve God.
00:21:03.75\00:21:07.62
And secondarily I want
to be healthy for my family.
00:21:07.63\00:21:11.74
And so there is a
way you can eat and drink
00:21:11.75\00:21:14.30
that will glorify
God but there is a way
00:21:14.31\00:21:16.54
you can eat and
drink that will not bring
00:21:16.55\00:21:18.78
glory to God and it will
actually cause you very much,
00:21:18.79\00:21:22.40
very large
problems overtime, you know.
00:21:22.41\00:21:25.01
And so we're gonna continue on
00:21:25.02\00:21:26.94
in the study here and
we're basing it in primarily
00:21:26.95\00:21:30.95
going from what I've just
laid here as a foundation.
00:21:30.96\00:21:34.20
You know, you think
about that as a foundation.
00:21:34.21\00:21:35.71
It's pretty serious,
it's not just something
00:21:35.72\00:21:38.03
we can just brush
off and say, well,
00:21:38.04\00:21:39.28
I'll accept this
part of the gospel,
00:21:39.29\00:21:40.60
I accept this part of
the Bible and this part.
00:21:40.61\00:21:42.25
When it comes out
whole health thing
00:21:42.26\00:21:43.50
no I'm just gonna brush it away.
00:21:43.51\00:21:45.50
Shalida back to
the car you borrowed.
00:21:46.93\00:21:49.15
If you would have took
that manual that you threw
00:21:49.16\00:21:51.80
in the glove box and shut
up and never opened it up,
00:21:51.81\00:21:53.63
you know, it told
you to change the oil,
00:21:53.64\00:21:55.01
when to change the oil, right.
00:21:55.02\00:21:56.45
It would have told you exactly
00:21:56.46\00:21:57.48
how much air to
put in your tires.
00:21:57.49\00:21:58.61
It would have told
you all these things
00:21:58.62\00:21:59.76
and if you have
followed that your car would be
00:21:59.77\00:22:01.48
in a lot better shape
and lasted a lot longer.
00:22:01.49\00:22:03.68
And when you take
it to the dealership
00:22:03.69\00:22:04.79
and you say why is all
these things happening,
00:22:04.80\00:22:06.29
why are all these
things happening to my car.
00:22:06.30\00:22:08.47
They are gonna say, well,
you didn't follow the manual
00:22:08.48\00:22:10.57
and, you know,
00:22:10.58\00:22:11.78
often times when we
go to God saying Lord
00:22:11.79\00:22:14.17
please heal my diseases.
00:22:14.18\00:22:15.86
The reason we have it
to start with not always
00:22:15.87\00:22:18.86
that often times is because
00:22:18.87\00:22:19.98
we never followed the manual.
00:22:19.99\00:22:22.26
You know, and not
that he won't help you,
00:22:22.27\00:22:23.49
the dealership
you take it back to,
00:22:23.50\00:22:24.57
they will help you,
but it's gonna cost you.
00:22:24.58\00:22:27.04
And I believe with
all my heart that Jesus,
00:22:27.05\00:22:28.66
when we come to Him,
even with our health problems
00:22:28.67\00:22:30.31
that we have often
times brought upon ourselves.
00:22:30.32\00:22:32.90
He will help us,
but I think it costs us
00:22:32.91\00:22:35.56
a little pain
or little suffering
00:22:35.57\00:22:36.86
and a few things
things like that,
00:22:36.87\00:22:38.35
because God also want's
us to learn to trust Him.
00:22:38.36\00:22:42.18
All right, am I going too slow?
00:22:42.19\00:22:44.82
I'll let everybody know
at home if you've seeing
00:22:47.14\00:22:49.13
some of the earlier
shows that are recorded
00:22:49.14\00:22:52.30
I was talking
really fast and I've been
00:22:52.31\00:22:54.17
reprimanded for that.
00:22:54.18\00:22:55.33
Now, they say,
you need to slow down
00:22:56.61\00:22:58.08
a little bit and it kills me.
00:22:58.09\00:22:59.24
You know, what happens
to me is when I slow down
00:22:59.25\00:23:01.84
thoughts come to my
mind and I don't get to the--
00:23:01.85\00:23:04.44
the end of my
sentence quick enough to start
00:23:04.45\00:23:07.45
saying that
thought and it goes away.
00:23:07.46\00:23:09.76
So I'm struggling here.
00:23:09.77\00:23:12.04
All right, now
our next text here
00:23:12.05\00:23:13.77
we're go to is in 3rd
John verse 2, 3rd John,
00:23:13.78\00:23:17.43
there is only one
chapter in 3rd John verse 2
00:23:17.44\00:23:19.75
and it's to the right we're at
00:23:19.76\00:23:21.60
and it let's us know
that God is not only caring
00:23:21.61\00:23:23.61
about our spiritual well being,
00:23:23.62\00:23:25.72
but just as much
as equally so actually
00:23:25.73\00:23:28.43
he cares about our physical.
00:23:28.44\00:23:29.79
Now 3rd John is
right before-- if you go
00:23:29.80\00:23:32.47
to Book of
Revelation and back up one book,
00:23:32.48\00:23:34.48
what book are you in? Jude.
00:23:34.49\00:23:36.52
Jude and back up one more book,
00:23:36.53\00:23:37.82
what book are
you in. Third John.
00:23:37.83\00:23:39.92
So we're going
to 3rd John verse 2
00:23:39.93\00:23:43.71
and I believe
Danielle is going to read
00:23:43.72\00:23:45.49
that one for us
3rd John verse 2.
00:23:45.50\00:23:48.70
"Beloved, I wish
above all things that thou
00:23:48.71\00:23:51.66
mayest prosper and be in health,
00:23:51.67\00:23:53.81
even as thy soul prospereth."
00:23:53.82\00:23:55.76
So John here
writing on the inspiration
00:23:55.77\00:23:58.16
of the Holy Spirit
says beloved I want you
00:23:58.17\00:24:00.50
to prosper and be in health
even as your soul prospers.
00:24:00.51\00:24:04.70
So is God interested about
00:24:04.71\00:24:05.73
in our spiritual
life being healthy? Yes.
00:24:05.74\00:24:08.41
But He is just
as interested in our
00:24:08.42\00:24:10.23
physical life being healthy.
00:24:10.24\00:24:12.05
Absolutely, absolutely.
00:24:12.06\00:24:13.77
And as we go through this,
00:24:13.78\00:24:15.04
you're gonna find
out that, you know,
00:24:15.05\00:24:16.51
like myself and
some of the and some
00:24:16.52\00:24:18.82
of the other friends I
have, I'm just gonna pick
00:24:18.83\00:24:20.57
on Mike over
here too and maybe Tim
00:24:20.58\00:24:23.30
I can pick on him, I know
his background a little bit.
00:24:23.31\00:24:25.24
But many of us during
our younger part of our life
00:24:25.25\00:24:27.97
we really messed
up our spiritual life.
00:24:27.98\00:24:30.52
You know, there wasn't
one, it was non existent.
00:24:30.53\00:24:32.18
We were basically
I guess you could say
00:24:32.19\00:24:34.18
serving the devil,
because if you're not
00:24:34.19\00:24:35.55
serving God in
a sense that's who
00:24:35.56\00:24:36.88
you're serving, right.
00:24:36.89\00:24:38.03
And so we weren't living for God
00:24:38.04\00:24:40.49
spiritually nor physically.
00:24:40.50\00:24:42.55
But just as same
whenever we came to God
00:24:42.56\00:24:45.45
he healed our
spiritual past if we come to Him
00:24:45.46\00:24:48.70
even though we lived
our life not serving Him
00:24:48.71\00:24:50.68
physically, He can
heal our physical past too.
00:24:50.69\00:24:53.46
He can make things get better,
00:24:53.47\00:24:54.51
he can make us
healthier with things
00:24:54.52\00:24:55.94
can change in our life.
00:24:55.95\00:24:57.05
Lifestyle changes both
spiritually and physically
00:24:57.06\00:25:00.05
will make us more healthy.
00:25:00.06\00:25:01.53
You know, what I
mean, make us feel better
00:25:01.54\00:25:02.80
make things better.
00:25:02.81\00:25:03.78
God can heal us.
00:25:03.79\00:25:04.93
We know He can and we
know He is willing to.
00:25:04.94\00:25:07.23
Now from this
point, we're gonna make
00:25:07.24\00:25:09.34
a little bit of a transition.
00:25:09.35\00:25:10.45
We've laid the foundation
that everybody understands
00:25:10.46\00:25:13.11
when I'm giving
the Bible study or even
00:25:13.12\00:25:14.46
when I'm preaching
this in evangelism,
00:25:14.47\00:25:16.07
I'm going a lot
faster in evangelism.
00:25:16.08\00:25:18.12
But whenever we're preaching it,
00:25:18.13\00:25:19.20
or whenever we're teaching
it we lay this foundation
00:25:19.21\00:25:21.42
that it's not okay for me
to claim to be a Christian
00:25:21.43\00:25:25.07
and then say that
God doesn't care about
00:25:25.08\00:25:26.46
how I'm physically.
00:25:26.47\00:25:28.14
As a matter of
fact John just told us
00:25:28.15\00:25:29.84
that it's just
important our physical health
00:25:29.85\00:25:32.21
as our spiritual health.
00:25:32.22\00:25:34.63
Now that's a new
Revelation to a lot of people.
00:25:34.64\00:25:36.48
I mean, there are probably
people at home right now,
00:25:36.49\00:25:37.99
or people watching
this DVD or whatever
00:25:38.00\00:25:40.41
and they are saying well
00:25:40.42\00:25:41.67
I've never been
taught about that.
00:25:41.68\00:25:42.76
I've never been
connected the two,
00:25:42.77\00:25:43.82
that our physical
health and our spiritual health
00:25:43.83\00:25:45.24
is equal and that God
cares about that, but He does.
00:25:45.25\00:25:48.23
And what I've
discovered in my personal life
00:25:48.24\00:25:50.68
that is after I
started eating more healthy
00:25:50.69\00:25:53.40
and living healthy
and trying to obeying
00:25:53.41\00:25:55.74
the laws, the health
rules that God has given us
00:25:55.75\00:25:57.82
out of the scriptures,
when I started doing that.
00:25:57.83\00:26:00.23
After I started doing that
00:26:00.24\00:26:01.61
my spiritual
thoughts became clear.
00:26:01.62\00:26:04.19
It's like I wasn't
so muddled in my head,
00:26:04.20\00:26:06.11
you know, with the
stuff that I was putting
00:26:06.12\00:26:07.93
in my body wasn't
helping me think as clearly
00:26:07.94\00:26:10.68
as I was able
to after I started,
00:26:10.69\00:26:13.31
I started eating as
God would have me eat.
00:26:13.32\00:26:15.24
So it does make a difference
00:26:15.25\00:26:16.42
and that's what
the Bible lays out.
00:26:16.43\00:26:17.94
As a case in point,
let us go to our next
00:26:17.95\00:26:21.03
part of the text, you
see that transition there
00:26:21.04\00:26:22.84
when you're giving
a Bible study, right.
00:26:22.85\00:26:25.03
In other words like I
give my personal experience,
00:26:25.04\00:26:27.63
this is good when
you're given a study
00:26:27.64\00:26:28.99
or even preaching.
00:26:29.00\00:26:29.97
When you give your
personal experience
00:26:29.98\00:26:31.58
and I say I discovered in
my own life that what I eat
00:26:31.59\00:26:34.80
and drink and
those things helped me
00:26:34.81\00:26:35.97
to think more clearly
and I was able to understand
00:26:35.98\00:26:38.04
spiritual things better.
00:26:38.05\00:26:39.17
Let us look at a case in point
00:26:39.18\00:26:40.49
and go to the Bible.
00:26:40.50\00:26:42.06
And that's where we're going
to now is Daniel Chapter 1.
00:26:42.07\00:26:44.05
You see how that ties together,
00:26:44.06\00:26:45.43
because we're gonna
see in Daniel Chapter 1
00:26:45.44\00:26:47.10
that the very
same thing happens.
00:26:47.11\00:26:48.91
Now I'm gonna
make a statement here
00:26:48.92\00:26:52.00
after we get somebody
reads part of Daniel Chapter 1
00:26:52.01\00:26:55.04
and it's gonna seem a
little bit outrageous.
00:26:55.05\00:26:57.06
Actually I'm gonna say it now,
00:26:57.07\00:26:59.24
when Daniel eats healthy
here in Daniel Chapter 1,
00:26:59.25\00:27:04.21
he didn't become healthy
00:27:04.22\00:27:05.19
because he was eating healthy.
00:27:05.20\00:27:06.41
He became he didn't become wiser
00:27:08.06\00:27:09.92
and all these things
we gonna find here because
00:27:09.93\00:27:11.14
he was eating the right food.
00:27:11.15\00:27:12.39
He did it because
he was obeying God.
00:27:12.40\00:27:15.05
And you will see
as we go along here,
00:27:15.06\00:27:16.29
it's just a ten day process.
00:27:16.30\00:27:17.95
Let us look at
here what helped him,
00:27:17.96\00:27:19.92
wasn't the fact
that he was just eating
00:27:19.93\00:27:21.36
the right food, it's
because he was obeying God.
00:27:21.37\00:27:23.79
That's the
important principle here
00:27:23.80\00:27:25.19
is obedience to what
God would have us to.
00:27:25.20\00:27:27.07
So if someone like to read
Daniel Chapter 1 and verse 8.
00:27:27.08\00:27:29.78
I think Dosung is
gonna read that for us.
00:27:29.79\00:27:31.66
Daniel Chapter 1 and
verse 8 and then also
00:27:31.67\00:27:35.32
you stay ready to
read verse 12 through 15.
00:27:35.33\00:27:37.50
"But Daniel purposed
in his heart that he would
00:27:38.57\00:27:41.37
not defile
himself with the portion
00:27:41.38\00:27:43.75
of the king's meat, nor
with the wine which he drank,
00:27:43.76\00:27:48.56
therefore he
requested of the prince
00:27:48.57\00:27:50.75
of the eunuchs that he
might not defile himself."
00:27:50.76\00:27:54.27
Okay let us picture what's
going on here with Daniel.
00:27:54.28\00:27:57.58
Daniel has just been taken away,
00:27:57.59\00:27:59.01
marched about a 1000
miles across the dessert
00:27:59.02\00:28:02.03
from his home
town there in Jerusalem
00:28:02.04\00:28:05.02
all the way to Babylon.
00:28:05.03\00:28:06.87
While Daniel is in Jerusalem,
00:28:06.88\00:28:09.31
he was taught as he
was growing up to eat
00:28:09.32\00:28:11.31
certain ways
because there was laws
00:28:11.32\00:28:14.40
that they had health principles
00:28:14.41\00:28:15.64
and health laws that God
00:28:15.65\00:28:16.62
had given the
Jewish people, right.
00:28:16.63\00:28:18.26
And He had given it
to all people as we learn
00:28:18.27\00:28:19.91
as we go on, but He given
it to the Jewish people there
00:28:19.92\00:28:21.65
and Daniel had been
taught to obey those laws.
00:28:21.66\00:28:23.70
He had been
taught that God is real
00:28:23.71\00:28:25.40
and that God cares for you,
He is gonna take care of you.
00:28:25.41\00:28:27.87
And while he was
there in Babylon, you know,
00:28:27.88\00:28:30.11
we looked at-- we
mentioned already once
00:28:30.12\00:28:31.67
before that there
was a prophet there
00:28:31.68\00:28:32.92
by the name of
Jeremiah, the prophet
00:28:32.93\00:28:34.79
and he was saying they
are gonna go away to Babylon
00:28:34.80\00:28:36.49
and the other
religious leaders at the time
00:28:36.50\00:28:38.33
say no God is
going to take care of us
00:28:38.34\00:28:40.37
we're not going
to get carried away.
00:28:40.38\00:28:42.05
But yet Daniel, he saw
his family likely murdered,
00:28:42.06\00:28:45.40
he saw a bunch of
friends and relatives
00:28:45.41\00:28:47.00
all killed, when
the Babylonians come
00:28:47.01\00:28:49.93
and besiege the city,
00:28:49.94\00:28:50.97
pretty horrible
situation, isn't it.
00:28:50.98\00:28:52.75
Do you think this
would have given Daniel
00:28:52.76\00:28:54.37
a reason not to be
trusting God anymore.
00:28:54.38\00:28:57.85
I mean, like if you're young kid
00:28:57.86\00:28:59.49
and you've just
seen all these things
00:28:59.50\00:29:00.88
that Daniel happened it to you
00:29:00.89\00:29:02.64
would you say is
God does even care,
00:29:02.65\00:29:04.04
does He actually even real,
00:29:04.05\00:29:05.75
does He even care about me.
00:29:05.76\00:29:07.06
But somehow
someway even in the midst
00:29:07.07\00:29:09.21
of all that, you
know, foreign land
00:29:09.22\00:29:12.50
where he is
surrounded by idolatry and idols
00:29:12.51\00:29:16.75
and things like
that, he is forced to serve
00:29:16.76\00:29:18.81
in a king's palace, he is
forced to go to that school.
00:29:18.82\00:29:21.15
I mean all these things
are happening in his life,
00:29:21.16\00:29:23.75
yet Daniel with
all that going on says,
00:29:23.76\00:29:26.31
you know, what.
00:29:26.32\00:29:27.78
My body doesn't belong
to me, it belongs to God
00:29:27.79\00:29:29.82
and I don't
want to defile myself
00:29:29.83\00:29:31.34
with what the
king would have us eat.
00:29:31.35\00:29:33.66
He is still trusting in God,
00:29:33.67\00:29:35.32
that's pretty powerful isn't it.
00:29:35.33\00:29:36.43
You know, you and I often times
00:29:36.44\00:29:38.27
if you just think
about it little bit,
00:29:38.28\00:29:40.79
I'm on hostile ground.
00:29:40.80\00:29:43.23
Anytime you want to
make a stand for God,
00:29:43.24\00:29:45.38
anytime you wanna
serve God with what you eat,
00:29:45.39\00:29:47.40
what you drink, when
you go to church right now,
00:29:47.41\00:29:50.29
right, where and all
these kinds of things.
00:29:50.30\00:29:52.34
It's an hostile
environment a lot of times
00:29:52.35\00:29:54.00
especially if you
are around nonbelievers
00:29:54.01\00:29:55.33
will give you a hard
way to go about, won't they.
00:29:55.34\00:29:57.36
But we've to be
like Daniel and say,
00:29:57.37\00:29:59.31
you know what, I'm
gonna make a stand for God.
00:29:59.32\00:30:02.04
And so that's what he says here,
00:30:02.05\00:30:03.02
he says look please--
00:30:03.03\00:30:04.92
he is gonna make
request here to the chief
00:30:04.93\00:30:06.97
of the eunuchs
and says please don't,
00:30:06.98\00:30:08.87
I don't want to eat this stuff
00:30:08.88\00:30:09.85
and drink this
stuff, I can't do it because
00:30:09.86\00:30:11.26
I'll be defiling my body,
I'll be disappointing God.
00:30:11.27\00:30:14.62
And now we're gonna
pick it up again in verse 12
00:30:14.63\00:30:16.90
and Dosung is gonna
read now verses 12 through 15
00:30:16.91\00:30:19.87
as we continue on here.
00:30:19.88\00:30:22.13
"So Daniel says to Belshazzar,
00:30:22.14\00:30:23.57
"Prove thy servants, I
beseech thee, ten days,
00:30:23.58\00:30:26.74
and let them
give us pulse to eat,
00:30:26.75\00:30:29.37
and water to drink."
00:30:29.38\00:30:30.35
Okay, hold on just a second.
00:30:30.36\00:30:31.64
He says I want, just
ten day trial please because
00:30:31.65\00:30:34.65
remember the chief of
the eunuch say Meltzar
00:30:34.66\00:30:36.69
he was worried
like, if I give you guys,
00:30:36.70\00:30:38.46
if I don't give
you the kings food
00:30:38.47\00:30:39.65
you're not going
to be as healthy,
00:30:39.66\00:30:40.82
because you got
to eat all this stuff
00:30:40.83\00:30:42.08
in order to be healthy.
00:30:42.09\00:30:43.16
The idea in that
time was if you don't eat
00:30:43.17\00:30:44.90
this stuff, you
won't be healthy.
00:30:44.91\00:30:47.26
So Daniel says please
just try for a ten days,
00:30:47.27\00:30:49.48
just let me have vegetables,
00:30:49.49\00:30:51.11
pulse to eat and water
to drink, that's all I want.
00:30:51.12\00:30:53.86
And if ten days if
you don't see a difference
00:30:53.87\00:30:55.54
then fine I'll go
and eat your food,
00:30:55.55\00:30:57.72
that's testing God.
00:30:57.73\00:30:59.11
Now let me ask you in general
00:30:59.12\00:31:03.03
if you take
somebody off the street,
00:31:03.04\00:31:05.25
yeah two people that's eating
00:31:05.26\00:31:06.23
just awful food Dosung, right,
00:31:06.24\00:31:08.05
they are just
eating things that's just--
00:31:08.06\00:31:09.66
but that's their lifestyle
00:31:09.67\00:31:10.72
and they've a
certain look to them,
00:31:10.73\00:31:11.70
they're just kind of
normal and you can't right,
00:31:11.71\00:31:13.01
you don't see anything
very bad wrong with him, right.
00:31:13.02\00:31:14.97
And you have two of
those people and you take
00:31:14.98\00:31:16.84
one of them out
of that situation
00:31:16.85\00:31:17.98
and say okay, you
only gonna have fruit,
00:31:17.99\00:31:19.29
you only gonna have
vegetables and water
00:31:19.30\00:31:20.68
to eat for ten days.
00:31:20.69\00:31:22.09
You think there is
going to be a really
00:31:22.10\00:31:23.21
a huge
difference between the two.
00:31:23.22\00:31:24.79
I mean they will
be somewhat likely,
00:31:24.80\00:31:25.82
but it won't be like
a noticeable difference
00:31:25.83\00:31:27.84
in that short of time.
00:31:27.85\00:31:29.40
I mean some people
argue with me on that point.
00:31:29.41\00:31:31.11
Oh yes, there would be
too, but I don't see it.
00:31:31.12\00:31:32.97
I mean, I mean like
coming out of the environment
00:31:32.98\00:31:34.55
I was, I was eating Big Max
and all these kind of things
00:31:34.56\00:31:36.93
and I felt really healthy.
00:31:36.94\00:31:38.15
Like when I first became
a Christian I was running
00:31:38.16\00:31:39.81
like five miles a day,
00:31:39.82\00:31:41.17
I was exercising and I
felt like I was healthier
00:31:41.18\00:31:44.19
just as healthy as
anybody in the church.
00:31:44.20\00:31:46.21
I found out later
on I had cholesterol
00:31:46.22\00:31:47.73
almost to 300 but
besides that's I felt good,
00:31:47.74\00:31:51.18
right and I look
good and I really believe
00:31:51.19\00:31:53.10
if they would have
taken me out of my situation
00:31:53.11\00:31:55.19
and said okay here I
want you to come over here
00:31:55.20\00:31:56.56
and eat only
vegetables for ten days.
00:31:56.57\00:31:58.39
I don't think
anybody will notice
00:31:58.40\00:31:59.60
any big difference in me.
00:31:59.61\00:32:01.53
But here what the point is,
00:32:01.54\00:32:03.30
is that Daniel
chooses to obey God
00:32:03.31\00:32:05.55
and he tells him look,
let it be done for ten days
00:32:05.56\00:32:08.72
and see if
there is a difference.
00:32:08.73\00:32:10.14
All, right, so his point is here
00:32:10.15\00:32:11.79
is obedience to
God. Read the rest of it.
00:32:11.80\00:32:13.83
"Then let our countenances
be looked upon before thee,
00:32:13.84\00:32:16.81
and the
countenance of the children
00:32:16.82\00:32:18.46
that eat of the
portion of the king's meat,
00:32:18.47\00:32:20.78
and as thou seest,
deal with thy servants.
00:32:20.79\00:32:24.01
So he consented to
them in this matter,
00:32:24.02\00:32:26.07
and proved them ten days.
00:32:26.08\00:32:27.91
And at the end of ten
days their countenances
00:32:27.92\00:32:30.68
appeared fairer
and fatter in flesh
00:32:30.69\00:32:33.32
than all the children
which did eat of the portion
00:32:33.33\00:32:36.46
of the king's meat."
00:32:36.47\00:32:37.62
So Daniel and his friends
that were blessed with by God
00:32:37.63\00:32:41.99
working with the
king there no doubt
00:32:42.00\00:32:43.70
in a situation worked
out where they could eat
00:32:43.71\00:32:45.67
just the vegetables
and water for ten days.
00:32:45.68\00:32:48.19
And at the end of ten days
they looked fairer and flesh,
00:32:48.20\00:32:51.79
they looked
fatter and I know that
00:32:51.80\00:32:53.57
doesn't look sound
good today in our culture,
00:32:53.58\00:32:55.66
but in other words
they looked more healthy.
00:32:55.67\00:32:57.16
They looked
healthier than the other boys
00:32:57.17\00:32:59.99
who are just like
them, but only were eating
00:33:00.00\00:33:01.48
the king's meat and the foods
that the king was providing.
00:33:01.49\00:33:04.62
The point is here,
when Daniel choose to obey
00:33:04.63\00:33:07.27
what God wanted to eat,
God then blessed Daniel.
00:33:07.28\00:33:11.56
And you know, you know,
what happened at the end of this
00:33:11.57\00:33:13.74
and you can read
it in verse 20 here.
00:33:13.75\00:33:15.71
It's as we're
leading up to verse 20
00:33:15.72\00:33:18.13
in the same Chapter
that after three years
00:33:18.14\00:33:20.60
span of Daniel
eating just these foods,
00:33:20.61\00:33:23.25
Daniel and his
friends eating these foods
00:33:23.26\00:33:24.65
and serving in the kings palace
00:33:24.66\00:33:25.76
at the end of the time,
look what it says in verse 20.
00:33:25.77\00:33:27.96
"And in all matters of wisdom
00:33:27.97\00:33:29.17
and understanding, that
the king enquired of them,
00:33:29.18\00:33:31.55
he found them
ten times better than
00:33:31.56\00:33:33.42
all the
magicians and astrologers
00:33:33.43\00:33:34.84
that were in all his realm.
00:33:34.85\00:33:35.82
And than Daniel continued even
00:33:35.83\00:33:36.92
to the first
year of King Cyrus."
00:33:36.93\00:33:39.03
In other words Daniel ate
what God would have him eat,
00:33:39.04\00:33:42.42
he lived like God
would have him live,
00:33:42.43\00:33:44.03
and God actually
blessed him and his friends
00:33:44.04\00:33:46.24
to be ten times
better, ten times wiser,
00:33:46.25\00:33:48.76
ten times healthier, whatever
00:33:48.77\00:33:50.32
than all the other
young ones who grew up.
00:33:50.33\00:33:52.87
And I like it's interesting
because the next part
00:33:52.88\00:33:54.52
of that statement says
and Daniel continued even
00:33:54.53\00:33:56.57
to the first year of King Cyrus.
00:33:56.58\00:33:58.24
What happened to the
rest of the guys? They died.
00:33:58.25\00:34:02.55
And as you read
through the Book of Daniel,
00:34:02.56\00:34:03.85
you know, he lived
till the ripe old age.
00:34:03.86\00:34:05.92
I mean, he has lived
all the way up into the time
00:34:05.93\00:34:07.18
where that into 70 year period
00:34:07.19\00:34:08.92
where they are
going back to Jerusalem
00:34:08.93\00:34:10.59
he is still alive then.
00:34:10.60\00:34:11.94
So if he would
say, he was only ten,
00:34:11.95\00:34:14.85
if he was ten years
old when they took him
00:34:14.86\00:34:16.23
to Babylon he was 80
years old and still living
00:34:16.24\00:34:20.15
when he is writing to
into the Book of Daniel.
00:34:20.16\00:34:22.72
So it's very
interesting that you can link
00:34:22.73\00:34:25.17
that right back to
the fact that he ate
00:34:25.18\00:34:27.17
what God would have him eat.
00:34:27.18\00:34:28.68
And you know, you
know, what the good thing is
00:34:28.69\00:34:30.07
about being
vegetarians don't you, right.
00:34:30.08\00:34:32.50
If you eat that
vegetarian diet like
00:34:32.51\00:34:34.25
Daniel did, eating
foods like Daniel did,
00:34:34.26\00:34:35.63
the lions don't want to eat you
00:34:35.64\00:34:36.63
because it's not much there.
00:34:36.64\00:34:38.07
That's not the case at all.
00:34:39.67\00:34:41.90
You know, then the lions,
the lions didn't want him,
00:34:41.91\00:34:44.02
he is a vegetarian,
hey, nothing there right,
00:34:44.03\00:34:45.81
there is no meat on the
bone of the vegetarian isn't it.
00:34:45.82\00:34:48.08
I'm a vegetarian look at this.
00:34:48.09\00:34:49.55
That's embarrassing.
00:34:52.89\00:34:54.19
All right, now let's go back,
00:34:55.75\00:34:57.32
I want to tell you
as we're going here
00:34:57.33\00:34:59.02
to our next section
Genesis Chapter 1 and verse 29.
00:34:59.03\00:35:02.10
Genesis the 1st
Chapter and verse 29
00:35:02.11\00:35:05.23
we're gonna go to
here and we're gonna look
00:35:05.24\00:35:06.35
at the original
diet that God gave.
00:35:06.36\00:35:07.77
Now, I got to tell
you here again coming out
00:35:07.78\00:35:11.56
of the background
that I was in that, I was--
00:35:11.57\00:35:13.70
what you call really un-church.
00:35:13.71\00:35:15.56
You've not been to
Church, you can count
00:35:15.57\00:35:16.80
how many times on your
hands and maybe take your shoe
00:35:16.81\00:35:19.90
off and get one toe out.
00:35:19.91\00:35:21.16
The times I had been
to church all growing up.
00:35:21.17\00:35:23.31
And as I was
growing up I got relatives
00:35:23.32\00:35:26.17
especially like my grandmother.
00:35:26.18\00:35:27.15
She is a Methodist and
I've relatives that many
00:35:27.16\00:35:29.78
of them are Methodist
and that kind of thing.
00:35:29.79\00:35:31.67
And when they
found out I was becoming
00:35:31.68\00:35:33.39
a Seventh-day
Adventist they frowned on that,
00:35:33.40\00:35:35.58
you know, they
didn't like that idea.
00:35:35.59\00:35:37.68
And so the
religious thing was always
00:35:37.69\00:35:39.20
kind of avoided to
logic stand, but every once
00:35:39.21\00:35:42.46
in a while somebody would throw
00:35:42.47\00:35:43.44
something out at me.
00:35:43.45\00:35:44.58
And I remember
being home one time
00:35:44.59\00:35:46.66
and I was sitting out on
the back porch with my mom
00:35:46.67\00:35:49.87
and my grandmother and
lawyer was sitting there
00:35:49.88\00:35:52.16
and my grandmother
just out of nowhere because
00:35:52.17\00:35:54.25
she knows that I
eat vegetarian, right,
00:35:54.26\00:35:56.49
and she says well
I heard on the radio
00:35:56.50\00:35:58.14
the news that
vegetarians don't get enough B12
00:35:58.15\00:36:01.40
they have bad eyesight.
00:36:01.41\00:36:03.20
And I said really
granny? She said yeah.
00:36:03.21\00:36:05.43
I said well I notice
you are wearing glasses
00:36:05.44\00:36:08.22
and she said oh
that's because I'm old.
00:36:08.23\00:36:10.49
I said well my
mom wears glasses?
00:36:10.50\00:36:13.16
Because she is old too.
00:36:13.17\00:36:14.76
I said my brother who
is only two older than me
00:36:14.77\00:36:17.04
is wearing glasses
for the last three years.
00:36:17.05\00:36:20.06
Well, well you
know, impress a little bit
00:36:20.07\00:36:22.10
and I said, let
me ask you something.
00:36:22.11\00:36:24.80
In the Bible
granny, God gave us a diet
00:36:24.81\00:36:27.63
in the Bible what
was the original diet?
00:36:27.64\00:36:30.10
The original diet
that God gave granny
00:36:30.11\00:36:31.66
you believe He
created us and so therefore
00:36:31.67\00:36:33.88
he would know
what's best for us.
00:36:33.89\00:36:35.21
He is like gives us
the sharp menu right,
00:36:35.22\00:36:36.76
as far as what to do.
00:36:36.77\00:36:38.30
So what is the diet that
God gave us in the Bible?
00:36:38.31\00:36:41.00
I don't know, of course
me I'm pretty persistent,
00:36:41.01\00:36:44.13
I said granny,
you've been a Christian
00:36:44.14\00:36:46.09
like your whole
life and you don't know
00:36:46.10\00:36:47.44
what the original diet was.
00:36:47.45\00:36:49.14
I don't know lamb.
00:36:49.15\00:36:50.50
And I said no,
actually the original diet
00:36:51.81\00:36:54.55
and then I told her what it was
00:36:54.56\00:36:55.70
and we're gonna
turn to that right now
00:36:55.71\00:36:56.82
Genesis Chapter 1 and verse 29.
00:36:56.83\00:36:59.37
Genesis Chapter 1 and verse 29
00:36:59.38\00:37:02.65
and Bill is going
to read that for us,
00:37:02.66\00:37:04.23
Genesis 1 verse 29.
00:37:04.24\00:37:06.75
And God said, "See, I
have given you every herb
00:37:06.76\00:37:09.85
and that yields
seed which is on the face
00:37:09.86\00:37:12.59
of all the earth, and every
tree whose fruit yields seed,
00:37:12.60\00:37:17.14
to you it shall be for food."
00:37:17.15\00:37:20.05
So according to the
Bible Genesis 1 and we know
00:37:20.06\00:37:22.64
that this is like when
God has created mankind,
00:37:22.65\00:37:24.51
right he got mankind
created and he says okay
00:37:24.52\00:37:26.32
here is your diet.
Here is what you gonna eat.
00:37:26.33\00:37:28.33
What was the diet? Fruits.
00:37:28.34\00:37:30.68
And if you
notice here, its fruits,
00:37:30.69\00:37:32.33
grains and nuts
basically the original diet.
00:37:32.34\00:37:34.65
Now, check this
out the original diet
00:37:34.66\00:37:36.21
was fruitarian,
it was fruitarian.
00:37:36.22\00:37:39.78
And they says well you
can't live on just fruits,
00:37:39.79\00:37:42.45
grains, and nuts, are you sure?
00:37:42.46\00:37:44.60
I mean because of our,
because of our taste buds,
00:37:44.61\00:37:47.96
and because of our
desires, and because
00:37:47.97\00:37:49.46
we have these-- we
desire certain things
00:37:49.47\00:37:52.52
we feel like,
oh, there is no way
00:37:52.53\00:37:53.86
I could live
without that, right.
00:37:53.87\00:37:55.56
But original diet here
He says fruits, grains,
00:37:55.57\00:37:57.83
and nuts is
basically what He says here,
00:37:57.84\00:37:59.71
because it has to be something
00:37:59.72\00:38:01.14
from the seeds, I
mean look at here.
00:38:01.15\00:38:04.03
It has to have the
seeds upon the face
00:38:04.04\00:38:05.69
of the earth and
everything that grows
00:38:05.70\00:38:06.80
from tree there and a
fruit tree yielding seed
00:38:06.81\00:38:09.94
it shall be for your meal.
00:38:09.95\00:38:11.00
So it would be nuts
and fruits, you know,
00:38:11.01\00:38:12.84
the grains that
kind of thing, right.
00:38:12.85\00:38:14.98
Now I think this is interesting
00:38:14.99\00:38:17.21
as I thought about this before.
00:38:17.22\00:38:19.78
Somebody might
00:38:19.79\00:38:21.20
straight me out on this or
clue me in some way different,
00:38:21.21\00:38:23.13
but it's
interesting to me that see
00:38:23.14\00:38:24.54
you can eat the
fruits, you can eat the grains,
00:38:24.55\00:38:26.77
and you can eat the nuts
00:38:26.78\00:38:27.75
without killing
the plant itself.
00:38:27.76\00:38:29.60
And you remember in
Eden the original plan
00:38:29.61\00:38:31.35
that God had was
nothing was going to die right.
00:38:31.36\00:38:33.63
God created everything perfect,
00:38:33.64\00:38:34.61
there was no sins
and nothing have to die,
00:38:34.62\00:38:36.11
so you can eat the
fruits off the tree,
00:38:36.12\00:38:37.24
the tree will still live.
00:38:37.25\00:38:38.28
You can eat the
grains, you can eat the nuts
00:38:38.29\00:38:39.68
and nothing had to die.
00:38:39.69\00:38:41.32
Everything can keep right living
00:38:41.33\00:38:42.30
and you could be healthy
eating God's original diet.
00:38:42.31\00:38:44.65
But, you know,
something came along,
00:38:44.66\00:38:47.21
Adam and Eve had a
little problem they,
00:38:47.22\00:38:48.84
they decided that
they are going to eat
00:38:48.85\00:38:51.83
something that God
had told them not to eat.
00:38:51.84\00:38:53.61
Isn't that interesting?
00:38:55.20\00:38:56.82
The original problem with us
00:38:56.83\00:38:58.22
being in a whole
problem of sin right now
00:38:58.23\00:39:00.50
is when Eve ate something
00:39:00.51\00:39:01.99
that God had
asked her not to eat.
00:39:02.00\00:39:03.72
And you know what
she said, you know,
00:39:03.73\00:39:05.24
basically what she
said, when you look at
00:39:05.25\00:39:06.94
in Genesis Chapter 3 and
Eve looked at that fruit,
00:39:06.95\00:39:09.96
it says in verse 6 and
this is not in your study,
00:39:09.97\00:39:12.21
I'm just gonna
throw that out there
00:39:12.22\00:39:13.19
because it just came to me.
00:39:13.20\00:39:14.48
This part of it
says when the woman saw,
00:39:14.49\00:39:16.72
Genesis 3:6, "When the woman saw
00:39:16.73\00:39:18.40
that the tree was good for food,
00:39:18.41\00:39:19.76
and that it was
pleasant to the eyes."
00:39:19.77\00:39:21.38
You know, what it's
exactly saying there.
00:39:21.39\00:39:23.03
She looked at the
fruit that God said don't eat
00:39:23.04\00:39:25.46
and said I just don't
see anything wrong with that.
00:39:25.47\00:39:29.20
God has said don't
eat a certain fruit
00:39:29.21\00:39:31.44
and Eve says but, I don't
see anything wrong with that.
00:39:31.45\00:39:34.24
As a matter of fact
I got this brilliant
00:39:34.25\00:39:36.28
serpent right here, the snake
00:39:36.29\00:39:37.84
that I've never
seen before talking snake
00:39:37.85\00:39:39.48
and he is telling
it's perfectly fine.
00:39:39.49\00:39:41.24
He is going
against, he is going against
00:39:43.24\00:39:44.70
what God has to say and
telling her do something
00:39:44.71\00:39:47.06
that God had told her not to do.
00:39:47.07\00:39:49.38
And so therefore
she obeyed the serpent,
00:39:49.39\00:39:50.81
you know, and ate
something that God had
00:39:50.82\00:39:52.61
asked her not to eat
and that's why we're here.
00:39:52.62\00:39:56.45
That's why you
have aches and pains,
00:39:56.46\00:39:57.55
that's why you have
problems in your lives
00:39:57.56\00:39:59.12
right nowadays,
because Eve decided to eat
00:39:59.13\00:40:01.26
something that God
had told her not to eat.
00:40:01.27\00:40:04.29
So do you think God cares about
00:40:04.30\00:40:05.47
what we eat or doesn't eat?
00:40:05.48\00:40:07.28
The whole reason
why this mess started
00:40:07.29\00:40:08.53
is because we've done that.
00:40:08.54\00:40:10.30
But so you look at
there and we just saw
00:40:10.31\00:40:12.16
the original diet was
just fruits, grains, and nuts.
00:40:12.17\00:40:14.01
But, you know,
after she made this mess
00:40:14.02\00:40:16.37
and then you keep
right on following along
00:40:16.38\00:40:18.18
you'll find that God
after the sin problem
00:40:18.19\00:40:21.06
in Genesis Chapter 3 verse
18 we're gonna read that now
00:40:21.07\00:40:23.82
Genesis Chapter 3 and verse 18
00:40:23.83\00:40:25.78
and I'll go ahead
and read that one,
00:40:25.79\00:40:28.66
Genesis Chapter 3 and verse 18.
00:40:28.67\00:40:32.30
After sin it says now
"Thorns also and thistles
00:40:34.27\00:40:38.17
shall it bring forth to thee,
00:40:38.18\00:40:39.91
and thou shalt eat
the herb of the field."
00:40:39.92\00:40:43.40
So now God has told
Adam and Eve, told Adam,
00:40:43.41\00:40:45.84
you have to go out and
start plowing up the field.
00:40:45.85\00:40:48.66
And as you plow the
field things are gonna
00:40:48.67\00:40:50.85
grow when you
start planting things
00:40:50.86\00:40:52.79
and it's gonna bring
forth, and it shall bring
00:40:52.80\00:40:55.25
froth thorns and thistles
you gonna have that problem
00:40:55.26\00:40:57.92
and you shall eat
the herb of the field.
00:40:57.93\00:41:00.26
Now I don't know about you,
00:41:00.27\00:41:02.46
but I have two roundworms.
00:41:02.47\00:41:04.86
You know, like have you
noticed when you go out,
00:41:04.87\00:41:06.57
you plant a
garden and you put seeds
00:41:06.58\00:41:08.53
in the ground then what grows up
00:41:08.54\00:41:12.05
are weeds all
around it and then the seed
00:41:12.06\00:41:14.24
will finally start
growing up this big.
00:41:14.25\00:41:15.43
Isn't it amazing how
much faster the weeds grow
00:41:15.44\00:41:17.39
than do the actual plants?
00:41:17.40\00:41:20.20
You know, its part of the curse,
00:41:20.21\00:41:21.18
it says thorns and
thistles are gonna be there,
00:41:21.19\00:41:23.42
but you're gonna eat now
00:41:23.43\00:41:24.53
also of the herb of the ground.
00:41:24.54\00:41:26.09
Now what will be
the herb of the ground?
00:41:26.10\00:41:27.63
Vegetables. Vegetables.
00:41:27.64\00:41:29.39
So you know, what after
sin things began to die.
00:41:29.40\00:41:34.22
Death is a result of sin.
00:41:34.23\00:41:35.98
And so now when you take,
00:41:35.99\00:41:37.49
when you take a
carrot up out of the ground
00:41:37.50\00:41:39.94
and you clean it all
off and you scrub it down
00:41:39.95\00:41:41.89
and you run it through
the juicer and drink it
00:41:41.90\00:41:43.64
or you actually eat it
like a carrot, you know,
00:41:43.65\00:41:46.25
just go ahead and
eat it you're killing it.
00:41:46.26\00:41:48.43
You're killing it, it's dying
00:41:50.79\00:41:52.50
and it goes into your body.
00:41:52.51\00:41:53.60
You ate the whole plant,
it's not the plant is not there
00:41:53.61\00:41:56.26
anymore you took and ate it.
00:41:56.27\00:41:57.61
And so the things like
that began to die then,
00:41:57.62\00:41:59.93
you know, we started
eating the vegetables
00:41:59.94\00:42:01.36
as well as the fruits
and the grains and the nuts.
00:42:01.37\00:42:04.16
So that was added to the diet.
00:42:04.17\00:42:05.80
So God's original diet, well,
00:42:05.81\00:42:06.89
we looked at right
here was first fruit, grain,
00:42:06.90\00:42:08.65
and nut and then
he added vegetables.
00:42:08.66\00:42:10.70
And it's
interesting because people says
00:42:10.71\00:42:12.33
now wait a minute, wait a minute
00:42:12.34\00:42:13.75
what about the animals.
00:42:13.76\00:42:16.06
God gave us animals to eat too.
00:42:16.07\00:42:17.93
There is no record
in the Bible of anybody
00:42:17.94\00:42:20.18
eating an animal, eating
one until after the flood.
00:42:20.19\00:42:23.07
I'm not saying they weren't
eating it before the flood,
00:42:23.08\00:42:25.13
I'm not saying oh
yeah they wasn't eating
00:42:25.14\00:42:26.25
animal before the flood.
00:42:26.26\00:42:27.23
They may very well
been people eating animals
00:42:27.24\00:42:28.99
before the flood
but there is no record
00:42:29.00\00:42:31.10
in the Bible of
anybody eating an animal
00:42:31.11\00:42:33.52
until after the flood.
00:42:33.53\00:42:36.33
And so as we go into
this next part of this
00:42:36.34\00:42:39.24
we're gonna go and find out
00:42:39.25\00:42:40.22
that God had a
distinction between animals
00:42:40.23\00:42:42.99
even that could be
eaten and not eaten.
00:42:43.00\00:42:45.04
Now if you want
to be the healthiest,
00:42:45.05\00:42:47.11
the healthiest and do
the very best according
00:42:47.12\00:42:49.10
to the Bible what is
that we should be eating.
00:42:49.11\00:42:51.57
Fruits, grains, and
nuts and vegetables,
00:42:51.58\00:42:53.63
you know, we add
the vegetables in it
00:42:53.64\00:42:54.81
to because
that's what Daniel ate
00:42:54.82\00:42:55.90
and Daniel-- Daniel
was eating the vegetables
00:42:55.91\00:42:57.96
that's what's the pause was.
00:42:57.97\00:42:59.42
So what we find like
the healthiest and the best
00:42:59.43\00:43:01.70
is the fruits, grains,
and nuts and vegetables.
00:43:01.71\00:43:03.63
I just gonna throw something out
00:43:03.64\00:43:05.19
just little early,
maybe little premature but,
00:43:05.20\00:43:08.27
you know, when you
eat an animal that animal
00:43:08.28\00:43:10.60
what do they tend to eat.
00:43:10.61\00:43:11.71
Most of the animals that we eat
00:43:11.72\00:43:12.69
what are they tend to eat.
00:43:12.70\00:43:14.09
Vegetables right.
00:43:14.10\00:43:15.27
Like you ate the cow
the cow is not eating
00:43:15.28\00:43:16.76
other cows unless they
have like grinding it up
00:43:16.77\00:43:18.97
in their food
and dump it in like
00:43:18.98\00:43:20.02
I understand they do now.
00:43:20.03\00:43:21.00
They take the sick and
dying cows and the sheep
00:43:21.01\00:43:22.92
and stuff and the
pigs they grind them up
00:43:22.93\00:43:24.61
in the food and
feed it back to the cows
00:43:24.62\00:43:26.08
and then we've the mad cow
00:43:26.09\00:43:27.28
and all kinds of
crazy stuff going on.
00:43:27.29\00:43:28.64
I mean I've heard all kinds
00:43:28.65\00:43:29.63
of horrible stories like that.
00:43:29.64\00:43:30.61
But in general when
you eat a cow or you eat
00:43:30.62\00:43:33.74
a deer, you eat
something like that,
00:43:33.75\00:43:35.19
you're actually
eating the nutrients
00:43:35.20\00:43:37.16
and the vitamins the
stuff you get from the animal
00:43:37.17\00:43:39.74
comes from the fat
that it has been eating
00:43:39.75\00:43:41.24
vegetables and those
things are in its system
00:43:41.25\00:43:44.45
and then you eat it out of there
00:43:44.46\00:43:45.70
and you are turning glean
from the meat that it has.
00:43:45.71\00:43:47.90
So I'll tell you what,
just like when you wanna go
00:43:47.91\00:43:50.32
buy something and
get a good discount
00:43:50.33\00:43:51.58
you can eliminate the middle man
00:43:51.59\00:43:53.28
and go right to the
source and do a lot better.
00:43:53.29\00:43:55.09
It's the same way what you eat.
00:43:55.10\00:43:57.41
You can
eliminate the middle man,
00:43:57.42\00:43:58.51
you can eliminate the middle cow
00:43:58.52\00:44:00.44
and you can go
right to the source
00:44:00.45\00:44:02.71
and eat the vegetables
and it's much better for you.
00:44:02.72\00:44:04.79
It really is.
00:44:06.87\00:44:08.09
There are people
right now just going crazy
00:44:08.10\00:44:10.13
saying no, you got to have meat,
00:44:10.14\00:44:11.59
you got to have this,
that's what they thought
00:44:11.60\00:44:13.07
in the days of Daniel.
00:44:13.08\00:44:14.51
You know, we
haven't progress much
00:44:14.52\00:44:15.86
that's one of
the reasons I don't,
00:44:15.87\00:44:17.17
definitely don't
believe in evolution, because
00:44:17.18\00:44:18.97
we have not evolved
and we're definitely not
00:44:18.98\00:44:20.86
any smarter than they were
00:44:20.87\00:44:22.09
way back in the
times of Babylon thinking
00:44:22.10\00:44:23.57
the same things
we're still thinking in.
00:44:23.58\00:44:26.39
We're devolving and so
right now at this point
00:44:26.40\00:44:30.64
we're gonna go on
to Genesis Chapter 1
00:44:30.65\00:44:33.53
and verse no I'm not
in Genesis Chapter 9,
00:44:33.54\00:44:37.04
okay messed up there.
00:44:37.05\00:44:39.20
Genesis Chapter 9:1 through 3,
00:44:39.21\00:44:40.50
we will look at the
second part of this.
00:44:40.51\00:44:42.85
It goes on with Genesis 3:18,
00:44:42.86\00:44:44.91
Genesis 9, 1 through 3.
00:44:44.92\00:44:46.99
It said oh man we
got to fix it in truck,
00:44:47.00\00:44:48.97
you know, it seems
they are yelling right now
00:44:48.98\00:44:52.24
as they are putting
together this video,
00:44:52.25\00:44:54.04
he saying okay
put a cut right there
00:44:54.05\00:44:55.39
we got to edit that,
it will work all right.
00:44:55.40\00:44:57.57
Genesis Chapter
9 verse 1 through 3
00:44:57.58\00:44:59.71
and Darlene is
gonna read that for us.
00:44:59.72\00:45:02.57
This is after the flood.
00:45:02.58\00:45:04.27
So God blessed
Noah and his sons,
00:45:04.28\00:45:06.49
and said to them, "Be
fruitful and multiply,
00:45:06.50\00:45:09.85
and fill the earth
and the fear of the Lord
00:45:09.86\00:45:12.66
and the dread of you
shall be on every beast,
00:45:12.67\00:45:18.12
and upon every five of the air,
00:45:18.13\00:45:20.50
on the earth, and
every bird of the air,
00:45:20.51\00:45:25.02
and on let's
see bird of the air,
00:45:25.03\00:45:28.93
on all that move on the earth,
00:45:28.94\00:45:31.00
and on all the fish of the sea.
00:45:31.01\00:45:33.04
They are given into your hands."
00:45:33.05\00:45:35.20
That really
emphasize verse 3 for me.
00:45:35.21\00:45:37.09
"Every moving thing that lives
00:45:37.10\00:45:38.79
shall be food for you.
00:45:38.80\00:45:40.83
I have given you all things,
00:45:40.84\00:45:43.84
even as the green herbs."
00:45:43.85\00:45:46.34
All right, now, you know,
00:45:46.35\00:45:48.39
we just read just now.
00:45:48.40\00:45:49.37
You know, Darlene do you realize
00:45:49.38\00:45:50.66
what you just read there verse 3
00:45:50.67\00:45:52.09
again it says every
moving thing that lives
00:45:52.10\00:45:54.40
shall be meat for you
even as the green herb.
00:45:54.41\00:45:56.94
You know what the
problem with that is right,
00:45:56.95\00:45:58.12
what's He telling them.
00:45:58.13\00:45:59.35
What is God telling Noah
and His son's right here,
00:45:59.36\00:46:01.99
everything that moves
shall be food for you.
00:46:02.00\00:46:05.53
That's what it
says, read it there.
00:46:05.54\00:46:07.18
Shalida taken ahead no but
that's exactly what it says.
00:46:07.19\00:46:09.55
Verse 3 it says, every
living verse 4 let's finish
00:46:09.56\00:46:16.08
Verse 3 it says,
"every moving thing lived
00:46:16.09\00:46:17.90
shall be meat for you
even as the green herbs
00:46:17.91\00:46:19.57
had I given you all things.
00:46:19.58\00:46:20.57
Verse 4 says, but
flesh with the life there off
00:46:20.58\00:46:23.47
which is in the blood
there we shall not eat.
00:46:23.48\00:46:25.34
So it's saying no
need of blood but it says
00:46:25.35\00:46:27.63
every moving thing
I've given you as food.
00:46:27.64\00:46:30.14
And, you know, what the
logical objection here is
00:46:30.15\00:46:32.99
and I say okay that
means every animal is okay
00:46:33.00\00:46:35.62
and clean to eat
according to God's directions
00:46:35.63\00:46:37.71
He has given to Noah.
00:46:37.72\00:46:38.71
Isn't that what it says there?
00:46:38.72\00:46:40.03
I'm kind of covering
two things right here,
00:46:40.04\00:46:41.34
we're gonna cover,
we're getting into the animal
00:46:41.35\00:46:42.73
part of eating and
we're also covering
00:46:42.74\00:46:44.97
what will be
called a difficult text.
00:46:44.98\00:46:47.18
But it is very simple as soon as
00:46:47.19\00:46:48.58
you read the context.
00:46:48.59\00:46:50.28
It says as every green
herb have I given it to you.
00:46:50.29\00:46:53.58
Is it safe to
eat every green herb?
00:46:53.59\00:46:55.88
Have you heard
of the herb Hemlock?
00:46:55.89\00:46:58.46
Do you know if you
eat Hemlock you'll die?
00:46:58.47\00:47:00.94
So since God has said
that every animal is okay
00:47:00.95\00:47:03.73
for you to eat or all
moving things are okay
00:47:03.74\00:47:05.65
to eat even as the green herb.
00:47:05.66\00:47:07.04
God is simply saying
if it doesn't kill you
00:47:07.05\00:47:10.50
then it is okay to eat it.
00:47:10.51\00:47:12.26
And then, you know,
he made a distinction
00:47:12.27\00:47:13.55
between the
things that will kill you
00:47:13.56\00:47:14.68
and the things that won't.
00:47:14.69\00:47:15.78
even before the flood
and I love doing this.
00:47:15.79\00:47:18.11
Now you guys are all like
00:47:18.12\00:47:19.12
Seventh-day Adventist here
00:47:19.13\00:47:20.20
and so you're
gonna get this one right.
00:47:20.21\00:47:22.80
But you will be
surprised how many times
00:47:22.81\00:47:24.81
I went to a
minister of other churches
00:47:24.82\00:47:27.41
or even members, you know,
00:47:27.42\00:47:28.63
and I'll ask them this question.
00:47:28.64\00:47:30.81
Because they
say-- because what we're
00:47:30.82\00:47:32.72
getting into now is
the fact that the animals
00:47:32.73\00:47:36.00
there is a distinction
that God made between
00:47:36.01\00:47:37.36
clean and unclean
and people will say well
00:47:37.37\00:47:39.06
that was only for the Jews.
00:47:39.07\00:47:41.34
Like Jews have the
different body than we do.
00:47:41.35\00:47:43.57
But let me ask you how many Jews
00:47:43.58\00:47:45.32
were around in the
days of Noah. None.
00:47:45.33\00:47:48.36
None, because the
first Jew was? Abraham.
00:47:48.37\00:47:50.33
Yeah, you go to
Abraham, right, and then Isaac,
00:47:50.34\00:47:53.02
and Jacob was the first one
00:47:53.03\00:47:54.53
actually called Israel, Israel.
00:47:54.54\00:47:57.09
So the children of Israel,
00:47:57.10\00:47:58.31
the Jews or Abraham than Isaac
00:47:58.32\00:47:59.95
and Jacob his descendents.
00:47:59.96\00:48:01.07
Okay, that was a much
past in the days of Noah
00:48:01.08\00:48:03.67
well after the flood.
00:48:03.68\00:48:04.97
So God never made
a distinction between
00:48:04.98\00:48:06.98
clean, unclean animals
as far as it goes to-- for
00:48:06.99\00:48:10.15
all the rest that was
prior to that, did he.
00:48:10.16\00:48:12.96
And then I like to take
on the Genesis Chapter 7,
00:48:12.97\00:48:15.65
Genesis Chapter 7 and verse 2,
00:48:15.66\00:48:17.97
Genesis Chapter 7 and verse 2.
00:48:17.98\00:48:20.72
You read verse 1
and 2 actually it says
00:48:20.73\00:48:23.20
"And the Lord said unto Noah,
00:48:23.21\00:48:25.12
come thou and all
your house into the ark,
00:48:25.13\00:48:27.44
for thee have I
seen righteous before me
00:48:27.45\00:48:29.29
in this generation.
00:48:29.30\00:48:30.90
Of every clean beast
thou shalt take to thee
00:48:30.91\00:48:34.55
by sevens, the
male and his female,
00:48:34.56\00:48:36.43
and the beasts that
are not clean by two,
00:48:36.44\00:48:38.40
the male and his female."
00:48:38.41\00:48:39.88
So when you ask the
question how many of each animal
00:48:39.89\00:48:41.80
went on the Ark,
Darlene what is everybody said.
00:48:41.81\00:48:43.54
Give me the common answer. Two.
00:48:43.55\00:48:45.35
Two by two right but
according to the Bible
00:48:45.36\00:48:47.56
what it was that we just read.
00:48:47.57\00:48:48.54
Did they go on two
by two or do they go on
00:48:48.55\00:48:50.03
by sevens and twos.
00:48:50.04\00:48:52.03
Now I'm gonna make
another little statement here
00:48:52.04\00:48:53.65
I think that's very interesting.
00:48:53.66\00:48:54.63
I think they
went on by 14s and 4s.
00:48:54.64\00:48:56.52
Does it make sense.
Look at what it says,
00:48:58.43\00:49:00.47
of every clean beast thou
00:49:00.48\00:49:01.80
shalt take to thee by sevens,
00:49:01.81\00:49:03.08
the male and his female.
00:49:03.09\00:49:04.13
If you taken by sevens
the male and his female
00:49:05.51\00:49:07.27
how many do you have. Fourteen.
00:49:07.28\00:49:08.44
Yeah, and that the
beast that are not clean
00:49:08.45\00:49:10.08
by two the male and his female.
00:49:10.09\00:49:11.99
Yeah, you wouldn't
have to say by two the male
00:49:13.20\00:49:15.18
and his female like
you just simply said
00:49:15.19\00:49:16.69
if unclean beast just take two.
00:49:16.70\00:49:18.77
Obviously it has to be
the male and the female.
00:49:18.78\00:49:20.42
But what it's actually
saying here is like okay
00:49:21.85\00:49:23.87
take two the by sevens.
00:49:23.88\00:49:24.86
Now, if seven divisible by two.
00:49:24.87\00:49:27.28
Now, some people say well,
00:49:27.29\00:49:28.31
there was just one
male and six females.
00:49:28.32\00:49:30.07
Well give me the
Bible text for that
00:49:30.08\00:49:31.13
I believe that one too.
00:49:31.14\00:49:32.20
And so, I think in my
context here that makes
00:49:32.21\00:49:34.35
quite a few animals on
to the Ark, doesn't it.
00:49:34.36\00:49:36.31
So whether it's
seven, whether it's 14s
00:49:36.32\00:49:38.68
and 4s or 7s and
2s whichever however
00:49:38.69\00:49:41.61
it was the fact is
they did not go into the Ark
00:49:41.62\00:49:43.66
simply two by two.
00:49:43.67\00:49:45.43
They went on the
Ark by sevens and twos.
00:49:45.44\00:49:47.53
Because God had made a
distinction even before
00:49:47.54\00:49:50.08
the flood that
they were clean beasts,
00:49:50.09\00:49:52.81
that were okay to
eat and non clean beast
00:49:52.82\00:49:55.27
that were not okay to eat.
00:49:55.28\00:49:57.48
Now we're gonna take
it a step further as we go
00:49:57.49\00:49:59.99
into this study
little bit and find out that
00:50:00.00\00:50:01.41
even in the last days
that the Bible predicts
00:50:01.42\00:50:03.65
in the last days
that we're not to eat
00:50:03.66\00:50:05.61
or gonna have to get
away from meat altogether.
00:50:05.62\00:50:08.53
Did you know the
Bible taught that?
00:50:08.54\00:50:10.48
We'll get into that
later on as we go along.
00:50:10.49\00:50:12.26
So let us carry on,
now we've understood
00:50:12.27\00:50:14.13
that God gave a distinction.
00:50:14.14\00:50:15.65
First of all He
says if you're going eat
00:50:15.66\00:50:16.97
the best diet, if you
want to be the healthiest
00:50:16.98\00:50:18.62
you need to eat fruits,
grains, nuts, and vegetables.
00:50:18.63\00:50:21.43
But if you're going
to eat meat right now
00:50:21.44\00:50:22.99
He says there are
distinction in the meats
00:50:23.00\00:50:25.84
between what we
will call clean meats
00:50:25.85\00:50:28.35
and unclean meats.
00:50:28.36\00:50:29.93
And that's where we're
going to with our next text.
00:50:29.94\00:50:31.90
We're gonna get
into that part of that
00:50:31.91\00:50:33.35
but first we're going to
00:50:33.36\00:50:34.79
Leviticus
Chapter 11 and verse 47.
00:50:34.80\00:50:37.13
Leviticus 11:47, and
Shalida is gonna be kind enough
00:50:37.14\00:50:39.97
to read that one for us.
00:50:39.98\00:50:41.09
Leviticus Chapter 11,
do you know how to get
00:50:41.10\00:50:43.72
to Leviticus
Shalida, you wanna help us out
00:50:43.73\00:50:45.25
little bit from Genesis.
00:50:45.26\00:50:47.38
It's the third
book of the Bible.
00:50:47.39\00:50:48.91
So you got
Genesis in what? Exodus.
00:50:48.92\00:50:51.10
Then Leviticus and
then we go to 11 Chapter
00:50:51.11\00:50:53.89
and you gonna
read verse 47 for us.
00:50:53.90\00:50:56.14
What's the purpose of
Leviticus Chapter 11, Shalida?
00:50:56.15\00:50:59.72
"To make a
difference between the unclean
00:50:59.73\00:51:01.95
and the clean, and
between the beast that may be
00:51:01.96\00:51:04.77
eaten and the beast
that may not be eaten."
00:51:04.78\00:51:07.35
So God here speaking to who,
00:51:07.36\00:51:10.70
at this point the
children of Israel
00:51:10.71\00:51:12.89
to Mosses and He
says I want you now,
00:51:12.90\00:51:15.00
I've given you a list
of things and the purpose
00:51:15.01\00:51:16.79
of this list is
so that you can know
00:51:16.80\00:51:18.33
the difference between
the things that are clean
00:51:18.34\00:51:19.77
and unclean and things
that are okay to be eaten
00:51:19.78\00:51:21.92
and not okay to be eaten.
00:51:21.93\00:51:23.62
Now there is something
I find very fascinating.
00:51:23.63\00:51:26.73
As we go through this
list and we start determining
00:51:26.74\00:51:28.62
what animals God has
said is okay, not okay.
00:51:28.63\00:51:31.00
There is something,
it just blows me away
00:51:31.01\00:51:34.07
is when you start
looking at the ones that He says
00:51:34.08\00:51:35.75
are unclean are the
ones that everybody likes
00:51:35.76\00:51:37.99
to eat that gives
them high blood pressure,
00:51:38.00\00:51:39.33
high cholesterol and all
these kind of medical problems.
00:51:39.34\00:51:41.90
I mean like I'll
just throw one out,
00:51:41.91\00:51:44.69
everybody is kind of
general one everybody knows.
00:51:44.70\00:51:46.23
Did you know that
the pig is unclean?
00:51:46.24\00:51:48.48
Now, you know, as soon
as you go to the doctor
00:51:48.49\00:51:50.69
with high blood pressure,
00:51:50.70\00:51:51.67
high cholesterol
and all these things,
00:51:51.68\00:51:52.74
one of the first things
that doctors often times
00:51:52.75\00:51:54.14
will tell you if there
is half their way in there
00:51:54.15\00:51:57.44
and the money they
get paid is that they say,
00:51:57.45\00:51:59.56
you know, what you may
have to give up that pork.
00:51:59.57\00:52:02.10
That sausage, and that baking,
00:52:02.11\00:52:03.19
and that ham stuff, you know,
00:52:03.20\00:52:04.19
it's clogging up your
arteries and it's giving
00:52:04.20\00:52:05.86
you high blood
pressure and it's causing
00:52:05.87\00:52:07.02
these problems for
you. If you give that up,
00:52:07.03\00:52:08.11
that will
probably help a little bit.
00:52:08.12\00:52:09.88
You know, but unfortunately
00:52:09.89\00:52:11.62
they don't do
that often times today.
00:52:11.63\00:52:13.23
Oh, man it's so sad.
00:52:13.24\00:52:15.07
In my family this
will get back down
00:52:15.08\00:52:17.59
my mom's never watched
one of my sermons or anything
00:52:17.60\00:52:19.68
of that she will watch
she just be the one to get
00:52:19.69\00:52:21.86
her hands on right.
00:52:21.87\00:52:24.09
She has told me
because she takes her row
00:52:24.10\00:52:27.52
of medications,
right, it's like keeping
00:52:27.53\00:52:29.81
in the window straight
I got a row of medications
00:52:29.82\00:52:31.14
up there she takes
for blood pressure,
00:52:31.15\00:52:32.44
cholesterol and
all these things right.
00:52:32.45\00:52:34.24
But doctor has told
me it doesn't matter
00:52:34.25\00:52:35.84
it's not on diet
it's inherited and as long
00:52:35.85\00:52:37.68
I take this medications
I can eat what I want.
00:52:37.69\00:52:39.50
I think that she will
be used for malpractice.
00:52:40.94\00:52:45.15
That is, that is so,
yeah maybe the medications
00:52:45.16\00:52:47.31
can help you eat
whatever you want.
00:52:47.32\00:52:49.61
But when you throw
something in your body
00:52:49.62\00:52:51.22
that's not naturally
there in order to take care
00:52:51.23\00:52:52.96
of something you
mixing things up,
00:52:52.97\00:52:54.24
you're messing things
up and things aren't going
00:52:54.25\00:52:55.75
to get better they just
gonna progressively get worse.
00:52:55.76\00:52:58.65
You know, like I've
seen these people like
00:52:58.66\00:53:01.51
they start taking the medication
00:53:01.52\00:53:02.66
and God help my
wife's grandmother.
00:53:02.67\00:53:08.09
She takes, she takes
a medication to help her
00:53:08.10\00:53:09.83
to go to the bathroom
and she takes another one
00:53:09.84\00:53:12.04
to help keep
often going to bathroom.
00:53:12.05\00:53:13.74
You know, she takes one
to help her to have fluids
00:53:13.75\00:53:16.26
and other help one
to be dry, you know,
00:53:16.27\00:53:17.82
I mean she will just take
one to counteract the other one.
00:53:17.83\00:53:20.16
All the times she is taking
all different medications,
00:53:20.17\00:53:21.63
you know, and it's
like she spins her life.
00:53:21.64\00:53:23.51
Popping these pills and
try to make her body work.
00:53:24.60\00:53:27.16
And God has said if you'll
just go out of the principles
00:53:27.17\00:53:29.45
that I've given you I
can make your body work.
00:53:29.46\00:53:33.38
And it's not the case as
I've heard so many times,
00:53:33.39\00:53:36.75
oh it's just
because you're getting old.
00:53:36.76\00:53:38.62
Listen I know many, many
00:53:38.63\00:53:41.35
Seventh-day Adventist Christians
00:53:41.36\00:53:43.14
that follow the
health principles
00:53:43.15\00:53:44.59
that we find in the Bible.
00:53:44.60\00:53:46.75
In one of their sayings
about just used I just love
00:53:46.76\00:53:50.43
daily he is passed on now.
00:53:50.44\00:53:51.78
His name is Eric
Smith, I think he was 96,
00:53:51.79\00:53:54.60
94 or 96 when he died
and even up to the right
00:53:54.61\00:53:58.11
just a few weeks before he,
00:53:58.12\00:53:59.19
he actually died
he was coming to work
00:53:59.20\00:54:00.66
where the company
that he started there.
00:54:00.67\00:54:02.22
Well, I was working at the time.
00:54:02.23\00:54:03.34
He would come to work everyday
00:54:03.35\00:54:05.26
and he is still making
machines and designing parts
00:54:05.27\00:54:07.76
and this I mean has
done all kinds of things.
00:54:07.77\00:54:09.59
And he is
working, he is healthy,
00:54:09.60\00:54:10.63
his mind is clear in everything
00:54:10.64\00:54:11.83
the man was
taking no medication.
00:54:11.84\00:54:13.73
And his son, you
know, my good friend Woker,
00:54:15.01\00:54:17.72
he is getting up in
there in age too as well,
00:54:17.73\00:54:19.88
you know, he takes nothing.
00:54:19.89\00:54:21.86
You know, what his
medicine is, his carrot juice.
00:54:21.87\00:54:24.69
You know, every time,
almost every time I go there
00:54:24.70\00:54:26.56
he offers me some
of that carrot juice.
00:54:26.57\00:54:27.78
Here have some
of this, you know,
00:54:27.79\00:54:29.06
and I like it
all I did taste okay,
00:54:29.07\00:54:30.54
I've better things
but I like carrot juice.
00:54:30.55\00:54:33.50
But the point is
under so many people
00:54:33.51\00:54:36.10
that follow the
principles that we're gonna be
00:54:36.11\00:54:37.85
that we've shown
so far and the ones
00:54:37.86\00:54:39.29
we are gonna continue to
show is we're getting ready
00:54:39.30\00:54:40.88
going to part two
after we done with this one.
00:54:40.89\00:54:43.10
And these principles
will make you healthy.
00:54:43.11\00:54:46.28
God is the one
that wrote this manual.
00:54:47.35\00:54:49.87
He is the one that gave us these
00:54:49.88\00:54:50.86
health principles, He
is the one that told us
00:54:50.87\00:54:52.63
what is okay and not okay to eat
00:54:52.64\00:54:53.95
and what's good for us.
00:54:53.96\00:54:55.57
And if we follow it
he will make us healthy
00:54:55.58\00:54:58.69
just like he did for Daniel.
00:54:58.70\00:55:01.10
It's funny to me
because I get to live in
00:55:01.11\00:55:02.53
two different
worlds and what I mean
00:55:02.54\00:55:04.67
by that is I've the
world I've got my family
00:55:04.68\00:55:08.16
my close family who are
the people I worship with
00:55:08.17\00:55:11.04
and go to church with them.
00:55:11.05\00:55:12.02
The Bible says
that He has made them
00:55:12.03\00:55:13.27
all one blood, you
know, those who follow Christ
00:55:13.28\00:55:15.14
are one blood and I
see the ones that are close
00:55:15.15\00:55:17.13
to Jesus and the ones
that are surrendering to Him
00:55:17.14\00:55:19.29
and they are living
by the health principles
00:55:19.30\00:55:21.08
He has given them.
00:55:21.09\00:55:22.06
Even was it they
didn't start to later in life
00:55:22.07\00:55:24.14
and I see that
they are like healthier,
00:55:24.15\00:55:25.69
they don't have medications,
00:55:25.70\00:55:26.90
some of them still
have a few things here
00:55:26.91\00:55:28.12
and air problems
and we're still living
00:55:28.13\00:55:29.45
in a sinful
world you understand.
00:55:29.46\00:55:31.45
But it's such as
minor small amount.
00:55:31.46\00:55:33.78
And then when I
look at my other family,
00:55:33.79\00:55:35.91
you know, the
one that I, that I,
00:55:35.92\00:55:37.71
biological family and those.
00:55:37.72\00:55:39.63
Even like my brother who
is just a couple of years
00:55:39.64\00:55:41.54
old than me he has
the cholesterol problems
00:55:41.55\00:55:43.37
and things like
that and he has had them
00:55:43.38\00:55:44.41
for several years now.
00:55:44.42\00:55:46.02
And my dad died
early of a heart attack
00:55:46.03\00:55:48.54
and my grandfather
died early of a heart attack
00:55:48.55\00:55:50.54
on my mom's side
and then my grandfather
00:55:50.55\00:55:53.62
of my dad side he
was 80 when he died.
00:55:53.63\00:55:55.37
But in general, you know,
00:55:55.38\00:55:57.18
he had health
problems taking medications
00:55:57.19\00:55:58.60
and things like that.
00:55:58.61\00:55:59.58
In general that is
dying younger on that side
00:55:59.59\00:56:01.82
of my family and the
only distinction I see
00:56:01.83\00:56:04.68
the only thing like
from standing in the middle
00:56:04.69\00:56:06.28
looking at both
sides of this scenario,
00:56:06.29\00:56:08.09
the only distinction I
see is the fact that my family
00:56:08.10\00:56:11.24
on this side of the
ones that are following
00:56:11.25\00:56:14.75
the health
principles that God give them
00:56:14.76\00:56:16.94
they are eating and living
00:56:16.95\00:56:18.16
what God would have
them live and these aren't.
00:56:18.17\00:56:21.32
And so if there is a
way that you can actually
00:56:21.33\00:56:24.01
see a difference, you know,
00:56:24.02\00:56:25.13
and see one way you
could be more healthier
00:56:25.14\00:56:26.41
than the other why
don't you want to follow it.
00:56:26.42\00:56:29.01
It doesn't make sense to me.
00:56:30.50\00:56:32.61
I mean, it's like-- it
was a no brainier for me.
00:56:32.62\00:56:34.57
I was just, yes, I
want to be healthy.
00:56:34.58\00:56:37.31
I don't want to orphan my
kids when I'm 51 years old.
00:56:37.32\00:56:40.33
And then on top of all
that to the glory of God
00:56:42.96\00:56:45.67
I'm doing what
he wants me to do.
00:56:46.87\00:56:49.98
And now we got
only less than a minute
00:56:49.99\00:56:51.47
and go right now
and when we come back
00:56:51.48\00:56:53.18
for the second half of the study
00:56:53.19\00:56:54.78
we're gonna be getting
into the details of the animals.
00:56:54.79\00:56:56.86
The God says okay, if you
insist on eating an animal
00:56:56.87\00:56:59.07
these are the ones that is okay,
00:56:59.08\00:57:00.53
these are the
ones that are not okay
00:57:00.54\00:57:01.65
and then we gonna talk about
00:57:01.66\00:57:02.63
alcohol and cigarettes
and all those kind of things.
00:57:02.64\00:57:04.32
So you definitely
don't want to miss that right
00:57:04.33\00:57:06.23
as you put that
cigarette out on the ashtray
00:57:06.24\00:57:07.68
for the last time.
00:57:07.69\00:57:09.61
We're gonna invite you back here
00:57:09.62\00:57:10.59
to the Lay
Institute for Evangelism.
00:57:10.60\00:57:12.62
We will back here just
in a few minutes for us
00:57:12.63\00:57:14.68
and just whenever you
want to watch that tape
00:57:14.69\00:57:16.03
at home or see that
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00:57:16.04\00:57:19.28
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00:57:19.29\00:57:22.83
You can download the lessons,
00:57:22.84\00:57:23.96
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00:57:23.97\00:57:25.88
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00:57:25.89\00:57:27.41
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00:57:27.42\00:57:30.68
So go ahead and
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00:57:30.69\00:57:32.19
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00:57:32.20\00:57:34.53
here at the Lay
Institute for Evangelism.
00:57:34.54\00:57:37.04